CT Region 3 ARES

Hello all,

I’ll be making several changes over the coming months regarding how we reach and communicate with our members.

First, I’ve started a facebook group for those of you active on that social network.  Just search for Region 3 ARES and you should find us.  We already have 8 or so members active in the group.

Using this service I’m able to increase the way we distribute information – especially if I’m mobile.

Second, some people received test phone calls from our automated calling tree.  This was a small test that we are thinking about improving upon this year.  It truly is impressive, open source technology which means we can modify the program source code and it doesn’t cost us anything!  Preliminary tests worked OK, so we’ll see how future tests go…….

Finally, you’ll notice a category on the left of the page called *calendar test.  I still have to work on a few things (mostly layout and such) but this is indeed functional.  I don’t know about the “widget” on the left of the page that is a whole calendar, but if you click on the page link, you can see the demo.

I’m thinking we’ll keep it on there as a way to organize online all our activities.

Feedback is always welcome.

Happy New Year and I look forward to working with the team for 2010!

Jonathan, KB1KIX

District Emergency Coordinator, Region 3

Hello all and welcome to the updated CT Region 3 ARES website.

We will have more updates as far as overall site design, but this will allow me to make the site more “dynamic” for now.  What does this mean?  It will allow me to add content to the site while I’m mobile.  It will also allow me to allow ADEC’s, EC’s and select others that do regional work to add content to the site.

It will make things a lot easier for me to get information in your hands.  Which, is the most important thing.

Also, for those of you that may use RSS readers, we have a feed which will make it easier for you to see when we have site updates.

Another reason for the change is for those volunteers that have visual disabilities.  This software has been tested with a few of the reading software and makes the site much more accessible for those that are site impaired.

Please check back here often, at least once a week since we have a large public service calendar.

Speaking of which, if you click on “Public Service” in the “Categories” section, you will get a list of entries regarding all our public service events.

Like I said, there will be a lot of updates and changes made as we go forward, but this is a HUGE step for us in the right direction.

Thanx,

Jonathan, KB1KIX

DEC Region 3

CT ARES